Deodorising Carpets?

Lillibet_2

We have just aquired a 7 week old puppy, in addition to our 12YO dog, and as you can imagine our carpets are taking a bit of a bashing! I have just used Neutradol carpet deodoriser which has done the job brilliantly but one 525 g carton at £1.49 on special offer is only just enough for one room & I need to do 2 on a fairly frequent basis (twice a week maybe? until house trained). I have looked up alternatives & it looks like bicarb will do the job just as well but even at cash & carry prices it is only a few pence cheaper plus I have the hassle of getting it in bulk from a C& C instead of on the high street..

Does anyone have any other suggestions on cheaper pet/child friendly alternatives or else how to use less of the stuff? Please don't suggest confining the new puppy to the garden/one room etc, I work for a vet & am aware of how to train her & excluding her is not the answer!

Thanks;)

Gingernutmeg

When we moved into our new place it absolutely stank of urine (previous tenant had a dog ...we hope lol) and we found the best stuff was the Rug doctor odour remover, which you get in a spray bottle. We spot treated the worst areas, and then hired the carpet cleaner and went through the whole house, and it seems to have got rid of the worst of it.

It's probably not the most money saving option but doing the job properly now will save you in the future, as once the smell gets into the underlay etc it's really hard to get rid of it. Maybe you could do as we did, spot treat the stains as and when they happen and then go through the house once the dog is trained. The Rug Doctor stuff is, I believe, biological too so it works on an enzyme level which stops the animal coming back (that might only be cats though ).

Fruball

I have always used a solution of bio washing powder/liquid for puppy accidents. I have never had an odour problem in my carpets

Apparently the biological agents 'eat' bacteria which causes the smell.

I found it much more effective than the expensive treatments that are supposedly designed for that purpose

mary43

We've got an elderly cat who for some reason thinks the rug near out front door is the ideal loo for her. We've even put a litter tray nearby but she totally ignores that so I'm forever scrubbing the rug 1) to get rid of any smell and 2) to try and stop her using it.
Not heard of this Rug Doctor before.................is it in supermarkets and easy to get ?

Gingernutmeg

The rug doctor is a carpet cleaner that you can hire from supermarkets/DIY stores. We hired one for a weeked (IIRC it was about £26ish for the weekend, Morrisons seemed to have the best deal local to us, if you hired it late on a Saturday you kept it till Monday but only paid for one day's hire, something like that) and then you have to buy the detergents separately. Tbh the smell was so bad that we were willing to try anything, and the bicarb, spot cleaning with bio powder etc just wasn't working for us. The carpets are cleaner at any rate

Bio washing powder is good and does work on small spots, but we were cleaning a whole house and so found hiring a cleaner to be a more practical and economical solution for us

Lillibet_2

I have been spot treating accidents with a bio-washing powder solution (which does indeed break down the emzynes & so doesn't smell to the dog) but I was worried that my house might still smell. Do you think I'm going for overkill with the neutradol too?